An ideal stocking-filler for Christmas - CHRISTMAS WITH THE SAVAGES by Mary Clive is based on real events and people. It is the story of a small girl's Christmas holiday in a large Edwardian country house is effortlessly funny. At Tamerlane Hall, Evelyn finds a horde of children: the gentle Glens, the plaintive Howliboos, and above all, the uninhibited Savages. They are controlled - or not - by a host of parents, supernumerary Uncles and Aunts, Nannies and nursery-maids. Evelyn survives the Christmas festivities - just - returning home none too soon! Seen through the eyes of a prim little eight-year-old, this is an amusing and touching account of a childhood a hundred years ago.

Prim and proper Evelyn would far rather talk to grown-ups than play with other children, so she's somewhat dismayed at the prospect of spending Christmas with the Savages - the unruly grandchildren of her mother's old acquaintance, Lady Tamerlane.


About the Author
Lady Mary Katherine Clive was a British writer and historian, known for her memoirs of her family. She died in March 2010, aged 102.


Book Information
ISBN 9780141361123
Author Mary Clive
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Puffin
Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
Weight(grams) 159g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 14mm